Which Lie Did I Tell?

From the Oscar-winning screenwriter ofButch Cassidy and the Sundance KidandThe Princess Bride(he also wrote the novel), and the bestselling author ofAdventures in the Screen Tradecomes a garrulous new book that is as much a screenwriting how-to (and how-not-to) manual as it is a feast of insider information. If you want to know why a no-name like Kathy Bates was cast inMisery-it's in here. Or why Linda Hunt's brilliant work inMaverickdidn't make the final cut-William Goldman gives you the straight truth. Why Clint Eastwood loves working with Gene Hackman and how MTV has changed movies for the worse-William Goldman, one of the most successful screenwriters in Hollywood today, tells all he knows. Devastatingly eye-opening and endlessly entertaining,Which Lie Did I Tell?is indispensable reading for anyone even slightly intrigued by the process of how a movie gets made.

William Goldman has been writing books and movies for forty-five years. He has won three Lifetime Achievement awards for screenwriting, two Screenwriter of the Year awards, two Academy Awards (for <i>Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid</i> and <i>All the President's Men</i>), and one English Academy Award. His novels include <b>Marathon Man</b>, which has made him very famous in dentists' offices around the world, <b>Boys and Girls Together, The Temple of Gold</b>, and <b>The Princess Bride</b>. He lives in New York City.<br><br><br><i>From the Hardcover edition.</i>